Ok, This may or may not be an issue but for what ever reason it has been bothering me. So I figured I would type it out, get some advice, and hopefully drop it.
I have been dating this guy for about 8 months and for the most part everything has been great. We both had gotten out of long term relationships shortly before we met.
Here is the thing.
I know that if you were in a long term relationship before me that there are going to be things you've done already with your ex that you probably would do with me now, I understand that. But why do significant others feel compelled to tell you that you are the only one they experience these things with, when you clearly are not.
The other day I was watching some of his old family videos with him because he was in the process of converting all the VHS to DVD. We had some laughs over the many hairstyles he experimented with back then when he said: "You should feel privileged, I don't let anyone see these, not even my ex has seen them."
Yea...well I remember back when I was still friends with his ex, she had a blog that was dated quite some time back, and I remember one of her entries mentioned how they spent the day at his parent's watching all the old family videos...OK so the fact that they saw that together does not bother me, in fact it's a given considering they were together for so long (8 years), but why would he go out of his way to say I'm the first? There are a couple of other instances where this has happened, and frankly it does kind of worry me that he would say these things when I know they are not true. I have to pick your brains and ask why someone would go out of their way to make a statement like that, when in retrospect they really didn't have to say anything and the moment would have been fine as is.